Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning v. Johnson

GRIFFIN, Justice,

for the Court:

This case, involving Mississippi’s medical education loan program, comes to the Court from the Circuit Court of Marion County, which granted the loan’s recipient, Dr. Charles P. Johnson, summary judgment. We reverse.

On July 29, 1975, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning entered into a contract with Johnson, agreeing to lend him $24,000 for expenses, while a student at the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine. The contract required Johnson to practice for five years in a community of 7,500 population, since changed to 10,000…